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serenakyle.bsky.social
@serenakyle.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of humanities who is always searching for the “human”part. 💙 crew🧢.
Mom of 🏳️‍🌈 hero, Mimi of an IVF miracle, Aunt of 🏳️‍⚧️ nieces! Proud of all and shall fight to the death for their rights.
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · Jan 19
Pinned for predictive sake (and hoping my sleepless nights are for naught). Hoping but not believing.
Andrew Coyne, a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail, pulls no punches on the incoming US administration: "Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please. There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do - to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world - is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero. The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe - the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry - before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions. At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional - the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be ... atmospheric. At some point someone - a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin — will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there. The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect - that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful. Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies - he won't replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes - and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation. Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants - finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so - will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late. We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing "tough things" to "restore order?" Some won't, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things. All of this will wash over Canada in various ways - some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I love me some crude humor.
Screenshot of a post on X by Omne Europa (@neolatyno) saying: “Good morning to Melania Trump’s homeland of Slovenia and to this amazing magazine cover showing her husband with Hitler moustache made of crude oil.” The post adds: “Slovenes cooked severely here.” Below the text are two images of a magazine cover and a close-up: both show a portrait of Donald Trump with a black moustache shaped like Adolf Hitler’s, depicted as dripping oil. The magazine title reads “OBJEKTIV,” and the cover headline references an “American attack on Venezuela.”
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
They’re not even trying to hide the white supremacy any more.
Screenshot of a post on X by FactPost (@factpostnews) quoting a pastor describing an encounter with ICE agents. The text says he saw ICE agents circling a young Hispanic woman and told an agent to stop harassing her. He says the agent got in his face, pointed a gun at him, and asked if he was afraid. The pastor says he was then handcuffed, put in the back of an SUV, and told, “Well, you’re white, you won’t be any fun anyway.” Below the quote is a video still from MSNBC showing a middle-aged man with glasses speaking from a home office with bookshelves and rainbow-colored blankets on chairs behind him. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: MINNEAPOLIS PASTOR SAYS HE WAS DETAINED BY ICE,” with “Katy Tur Reports” and MSNBC branding.
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
It’s not about keeping us safe from criminals. This is ethnic cleansing.
Screenshot of a post on X by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@R…) stating: “NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all—no criminal convictions and no pending criminal charges.” Below the text is a line chart titled “Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the Interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 7, 2026.” The chart shows three lines—prior convictions, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record—with a sharp rise near the end in the “no criminal record” category. The source is listed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
January 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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susanmcp.bsky.social
“In true Trumpian fashion, Noem, Vance, and other administration officials have gone as far as to refuse expressing any remorse or normal human empathy for the death of a mother who leaves behind a toddler.”

Critcally important read by @justinglawe.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:
The right-wing dehumanization machine is speeding up
They're skipping right past thoughts and prayers.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.
January 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
serenakyle.bsky.social
So heartbreaking…
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
January 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
The December jobs report revealed that the U.S. economy added just 50,000 jobs, meaning that 2025 had the slowest average monthly job growth in a non-recession year since 2003.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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atrupar.com
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
January 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
A cold-blooded murder was committed inside the United States by an agent of the United States federal government acting under the authority of Donald Trump.

That is cause for deep concern by us all — right and left, Democrat and Republican. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-cold-blooded-murder
A cold-blooded murder
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
January 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal agents in Portland, Oregon, were involved in a shooting this afternoon that sent a man and a woman to the hospital, Portland Police said.
Federal agents in Portland involved in shooting of two people, police say
www.cnbc.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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mayor.nyc.gov
Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.
January 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
💔💔
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Clarity, @aoc.bsky.social speaks with clarity
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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tangibullah.bsky.social
Please support Michael de Adder, who does great work:
January 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/06/26/f...
These are the Fortune 500 companies that have active contracts with ICE | Fortune
From AT&T to FedEx, these are the organizations contracting with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
fortune.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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jjfroggy.bsky.social
Where are the god damn
Epstein files?! Or has republicans resorted to killing innocent people to distract attention from the inevitable consequences!
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
serenakyle.bsky.social
This so breaks my heart. The ooze that is coming out of the Noem’s mouth is disgusting.
January 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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princesskim.bsky.social
Hi! I’m Walter! I came 2 #nycacc 9days ago and already set to be euthanized here. I’m tense; I’m terrified. I see all kinds of crazy things happening that scare me! NY NH NJ NE RI VT ME MD DC DE CT VA PA- I can come 2u! Pls save my life! Pls repost me! FUCK ICE
January 8, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Ice killed a 37 year old and Kristie Noam is wearing a cowboy hat
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM